Example sentences of "[num] years [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
2 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
3 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
4 | Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said P C Tom Cawley had already served 2 years for offences he certainly never committed , on fabricated evidence . |
5 | So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army . |
6 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
7 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
8 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
9 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
10 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
11 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
12 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
13 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
14 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
15 | To determine , say , the incidence of deafness in men between 50 and 55 years of age we really need more of a cine film approach . |
16 | ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’ |
17 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
18 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
19 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
20 | He loved stand-up comedy , but over 50 years in showbusiness he also became well-known for his roles in some of the best British comedy films and tv shows . |
21 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
22 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
23 | Ten years of age she was . |
24 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
25 | In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database . |
26 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
27 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
28 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
29 | Even the Sun avoids the pejorative term , ‘ girl ’ , for this 23-year-old woman whose reputation comes out unscathed from the media coverage — Brute was burned alive by mother who lived in fear SEX SLAVE JAILED FOR KILLING SADIST LOVER ( Daily Mail ) ; SEX-SLAVE MUM GETS 3 YEARS IN JAIL She burned kinky lover ( Sun ) . |
30 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |